Have you heard of the billable expenses feature in Xero? It is a handy feature that can be especially good for construction contractors. What are Billable Expenses? Billable expenses work by being able to assign a certain expense to a customer when you are entering a bill or spend money transaction. You can opt to […]
Category Archives: Cloud Accounting
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Mar
Mar
This month we are featuring construction contractors. We love working with construction contractors and you could even say we specialize in working with contractors. Contractors face some unique challenges. Today we will talk about three challenges that contractors might face and how tools in Xero can help solve these challenges. Invoicing and Getting Paid Quickly We […]
28
Feb
Feb
This month we are focusing on good practices to follow when starting a new business. A basic step when starting a new business is creating a new Xero file, and one of the first steps to that is editing your settings. One of the things we love about Xero is how the settings can be […]
08
Feb
Feb
We all want to get paid as quickly as we can. Getting paid in a timely manner is very important to a small business as cash flow can make or break a business. The lifeblood of cash flow for many businesses is invoicing. It also can be the most time-consuming. Xero has many features to simplify […]
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Jan
Jan
Xero is always coming out with new features! A recently released feature got us pretty excited. There is now a running balance column on the bank account transactions page. What is the Running Balance? The running balance on the Account Transactions tab includes all reconciled transactions and unreconciled spend money and receive money transactions that have […]
10
Jan
Jan
Have you encountered this scenario: You have your bank rules set up and they are working well for you. You come to one particular item and Xero wants to auto-match the transaction (you will see the suggested match in green), but you want to apply a bank rule. Why is Xero auto-matching your transaction? We’ve […]
03
Oct
Oct
You probably are familiar with how Xero allows users to leave notes under the Discuss Tab for unreconciled statement lines within the Bank Reconciliation screen. We have found that this is a great tool for collaboration between us and our clients and also for our clients. Once again Xero has made a good thing even […]
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Sep
Sep
It’s important to get paid from your customers. We know this, you know this, they know this, but dealing with late payments is a pain (pun intended) we all have to deal with at times. Here are three invoicing tips to help you get paid faster in Xero. 1. Email your Invoices Snail mailing your […]
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Sep
Sep
We love working with contractors. In fact we would say that we specialize in working with contractors. Why? My husband is a landscape contractor. This makes it easy for me to relate on a personal level to contractors. Doing the day to day bookkeeping of my husband’s business for more than three decades has given […]
03
Aug
Aug
Have you ever forgot a password to something? I know I have! It seems like every day I’m making a new password for something and my brain can’t keep up! Here are instructions on how to fix the issue if you forget your password in Xero. Resetting forgotten password Go to the Xero login page. Click […]